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What is JWST?

What is JWST? An innocent Q.

But deserving of prose. I knew just what to do.

 

It's ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ jwst our first space flower,

Unfurling it's hexagons.

Golden petals that thirst for ancient photons.

 

Jwst the thing that can see so much further than we

would have ever dared dream in the last century.

 

So you'd think it'd be hard to see our backyard,

After red galaxies melding with CMB.

But it's shadowy seat is what gives us the treat,

Of our hard to reach planets in infrared heat.

 

James Webb Space Telescope

Keeps surpassing all hopes.

30 years to develop. At least twice we went broke!

 

A 10 year orbital cosmology store.

It survived through max Q, and keeps giving us more.

30 years in the womb. Twas a legacy born.

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Written by
pseudocalm
42 / M / Canada
Published
Jul 24, 2025
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17·131
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There is so much light that can only be collected in the dark.

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#science#scientific#space#cosmology#astronomy#astronomical#jwst
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